If you don’t want the Senate to approve Sen. Obama's S. 2433 to set in motion legislation to require the United States to spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new United Nations-inspired foreign aid spending by 2015, then please read on and send the editable email message below to your senators. Please act now! This bill could come up for a vote in the full Senate at any time after July 7th. The House has already passed its version of this bill (H.R. 1302) by a voice vote on September 25, 2007.
In September 2000 the UN General Assembly adopted the “United Nations Millennium Declaration ,” a very comprehensive, nine-page document that ends:
We solemnly reaffirm, on this historic occasion, that the United Nations is the indispensable common house of the entire human family, through which we will seek to realize our universal aspirations for peace, cooperation and development. We therefore pledge our unstinting support for these common objectives and our determination to achieve them.
The Declaration’s section on Development and Poverty Eradication sets the goal “To halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a day….”
Then, in 2002 the UN’s International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, established a goal for foreign aid to impoverished nations – 0.7 percent of the gross national product (GNP) of developed nations.
Next we have Senator Obama’s S. 2433 Global Poverty Act of 2007 which he introduced in the Senate on December 7, 2007. His bill is nearly identical to a House bill (H.R. 1302) that was passed in the House by a voice vote on September 25, 2007. The purpose of S. 2433 is:
To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
Thus, S. 2433 does not authorize or appropriate any money to fight global poverty, but only requires the President to develop a strategy to achieve UN Millennium Development goals, such as halving the proportion of people in the world who live on less than $1 per day by 2015. However, based on the 2002 UN goal of foreign aid spending of 0.7 percent of GNP by developed nations, it has been estimated by some conservative commentators that achieving the Millennium Declaration’s development goal of poverty reduction could cost the U.S. over $800 billion by 2015.
Although the Millennium Declaration also contains a whole host of other UN pet projects, such as greater UN regulation of light weapons and imposing the Kyoto Protocol to reduce global warming on the U.S., these projects are not addressed by S. 2433.
One interesting aspect of this S. 2433 bill is that when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee slightly amended the bill before reporting it out of committee with a favorable recommendation on April 24, they carefully went through the bill and wherever the words "United Nations Millennium Development Goals" appear, they deleted the words "United Nations." However, at the very end of the bill the committee was forced to admit the UN connection with the Millenium Development Goals when they explained:
The term "Millennium Development Goals" means the goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, General Assembly Resolution 55/2 (2000) .
The bottom line is that Americans should contact their senators in strong opposition to S. 2433, because Senator Obama’s Global Poverty Reduction Act would serve to grease the skids for further legislation to force the U.S. to empower the United Nations by fulfilling its extremely costly Millennium Declaration goals.
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